“What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.”

“I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other thingsthe disdain of ordinary l...”

“Poem from Rev. Jim Cotter, as listed on the opening pages of Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss:~ God be in my head and in my understanding. God be in my eyes and in my looking. God be in my mo...”

“Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.”

“Healing is a different type of pain. Its the pain of becoming aware of the power of ones strength and weakness, of ones capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most c...”

“Finding the right healing path requires all or nothing. Once you place conditions on healing, all you can achieve is conditional healing.”

“The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. Communists took advantage of supply problems and stirred up gullible people against their very ow...”

“Self-hatred is the best vehicle for making people do as theyre told because they are hungry to get approval.”

“She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.”

“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It ...”

“In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above the stalled oxen Envying the cruel falcon, And dig under the straw for a stone To bruise himself on.”

“It is amazing, though, what pains your subconscious will undergo in achieve sustainable peace.”

“Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.”

“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”

“If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the ...”